Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
No pronunciation record was provided for this word.
noun
Any butterfly of the genus Lycaena.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: especially
Topics: biology, natural-sciences, taxonomy
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: lycaenid
noun
type genus of the Lycaenidae; small slender butterflies with upper surface of wings usually metallic blue or green or copper
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: genus Lycaena
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: arthropod genus
History
A learned borrowing from translingual Lycaena, from Ancient Greek λῠ́καινᾰ f (lŭ́kaină, “she-wolf”).
